ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,478, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NCR Voyix Corp. (Atlanta).
"Multi-item product recognition for checkouts" was invented by Stefan Bjelcevic (Roswell, Ga.), Christian Lee McDaniel (Atlanta) and Brent Vance Zucker (Roswell, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple images of a designated area are taken. The designated area comprises multiple items that are to be identified from the images. Depth information and Red, Green, Blue (RGB) data from each image is processed to create a point cloud for each image of the designated area. The point clouds are patched together or synchronized into a single point cloud for the designated ar...